Word: superior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reports received the team played collectively one of the poorest games this fall, but there can be but little doubt that they were clearly out matched. The best of good luck could not possibly have changed the final result of the game. The Princeton rush line was superior to ours, and the backs could not get a fair chance to do any brilliant playing...
...place at 2 p. m. on January 1st, at a town called William, in the Sacremento Valley. Under favorable circumstances this eclipse will be visible over a strip of country one hundred and twenty miles long; it will also be visible as a sunset phenomenon in Canada near Lake Superior, and as a partial eclipse as far east as New York. Owing to the wide range of country from which the eclipse is visible an excellent chance is offered to solve various problems concerning the sun's course and the amount and intensity of the light emitted under the given...
DARTMOUTH, 30; TECH., 0.The Tech.- Dartmouth game at Hanover resulted in a victory for Dartmouth by a score of 30 to 0. In spite of the rain and mud the game was well played. Dartmouth won by superior rushing...
...Herrick's "Resurgens" is in a very different vein from most of his previous works. It lacks the vigor and picturesqueness of his Mexican sketches, but is far superior in delivery of thought and treatment. The first part is a little dull and prosy but towards the end the movement is better. The development of Catherine's character is excellent and is the chief merit of the piece...
...revenue. The hard-headed merchants, who had enlarged their minds by travel, were by no means as captivated by the doctrine of the would-be reformer as were the savage tribes of the desert. Mecca surrendered, not to the religion or personal influence of the prophet, but to a superior armed force, and that only when by the complete coercion of the roving tribes, their commercial supremacy was no longer in danger...